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http://www.comair.com

Bases

Cincinnati OH, New York NY

Fleet

CRJ100/200, CRJ700, CRJ900

Interview Profile

Tour of the facility
Company presentation
- Overview of the company
- Conducted by human resources
ATP Written Test
- 27 Questions
- No figures or charts
- Used to determine how difficult the technical oral will be
Technical and HR panel interview
- One pilot (usually Ralph McWhorter- Chief Piot)
- One HR individual
- see question bank below
Cognitive Test
- No way to study
- See example questions below

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Interview Question Bank

Written Test

Regulations
WX
Instrument procedures
Define V1.
Define V2.
Define V1 min.
Where would you find an embedded thunderstorm
Turbine engine questions

Technical Questions

What is an Airmet?
What is a Sigmet?
What is a convective sigment?
You are on final in your twin and you lose an engine, go through the procedures you would use to shut down the engine
Be able to read a TAF and determine if you will need an alternate at destination
FAR part 121 takeoff alternate requirements, when do you need one, how far away can it be?
Be able to brief an approach. Expressway visual into LGA, ILS 14 LGA.
What are Part 91 fuel requirements?
How much fuel do you need for your alternate?
Brief the ILS approach RWY 31R to JFK followed by an arrival into JFK.
What are holding speeds above 14000? How long are the legs?
What are speeds in Class B and underlying Class B?
What is the speed limit in Class C? Class D?
What is V1?
what is V2?
what is VYSE and how is it different from V2?
What is a characteristics of sweptback wing?
What is a major disadvantage?
What is Dutch roll?
How do you correct for Dutch Roll? What if you don't have a yaw dampener?
What is your rate of descent on a normal 3 degree glidepath?
What would you do if Capt was flying a an unstabilized approach near DA?
Would you confront him or speak with him afterwards about the situation?
Plan on getting CRJ system questions if you've done any CRJ training or familiarization
What is balanced field length
I was asked about the landing gear system and emergency extension procedure on my plane
What is a hydraulic check valve?
Flying toward some convective activity, what things should we start thinking about?
How far should you fly around a thunderstorm?
How high should you fly over a storm?
What do you do if the required visibility drops below minimums outside the FAF?
What if you are inside the FAF?
what are in ops specs?
what's on a dispatch release?
verbally file an IFR flight plan.
What is minimum takeoff visibility?
When do you slow when expecting to hold?
What is needed to go below DH? What if only the approach lights are in sight?
what is critical mach?
usable range of a vasi?
Explain the fuel system on my current twin
what category is your current aircraft classified as on the approach A,B,C or D,
Explain the MSA circle on the plate
What do vortex generators do?
Read a winds aloft forecast.
Is an airmet current or forecast?
Know Jepp approach plate symbols.
Explain the gear system and emergency extension procedure on your current aircraft.
Explain the pressurization system on your current aircraft.
Describe the engines on your current aircraft.
What do you need to descend below 100 feet above TDZE?
After Passing V1 you get a master caution, Captain acknowledges it reaches up and cancels the caution without saying anything, what do you do?
Lost com procedures
Given approach plate (often ILS 4 LGA)
- How would you enter the holding pattern on the chart?
- How long are the holding pattern legs?
- Where is the FAF, MAP?
What are the dimensions of class D airspace?
If in Class B above 10,000 do you need to slow to 250knots?
What is the best written report for finding convective activity along your route?
Identify what type of NOTAM you are looking at
On a missed approach from an ILS, you get a loud bang with an engine failure- what will you do? What if only airport above minimums has a 30 knot tailwind for landing and weather is below mins everywhere else within 200 miles and you have 40 minutes of fuel remaining?

Human Resource Questions

Give me an overview of how you started flying to now?
Why Comair?
What is CRM?
What do you think will be your biggest weakness going into training?
What are some good qualities of a First Officer?
What are some good qualities of a captain?
Do you have any other interviews lined up?
Did you go through any type of bridge program?
Captain is flying toward a thunderstorm and wants to fly through it what do you do? ( a few questions about this, they want to know how you are going to react with the captain.)
Walk us through your resume.
What can you bring to the company?
How did you prepare for the interview
What would your old boss say about you?
Define CRM and tell us about a situation when you used it.
Tell us about the type of flying you've been doing lately.
What is the biggest challenge you think you'd have during training?
3 words to describe yourself.
what would you do if you felt you were falling behind in training.
how did you prep for this interview?
have you ever failed a checkride?
What would it take for you to take the controls away from the Captain?
What do you expect from your crew?
Tell me about a time when you had to be on your toes as a pilot.
You just did an okay T/O, departure airport goes below minimums for an approach. Your takeoff alternate is 2 hours away. The flight attendant calls and someone is having a heart attack, what would you do.
You're on an overnight. You and the entire crew were out having a few drinks. You all stopped more than 12 hours before report time the next day. You go down to the lobby later and see the captain at the bar having a drink. What would you do?
You show up for work in the morning and you smell alcohol on the captain's breath, what would you do?
How do you handle negative attitudes in other people?
Where do you see yourself in five years?
What are your career goals?
Why should we hire you?
What can you bring to Comair?
Tell us about a time you broke a regulation.
How soon do you want to upgrade to Captain?
Does anything other than flying interest you in aviation?
Tell me about a poor decision you made in the cockpit and what you learned from it.
You see Captain drinking inside of company 10 hour restriction, what do you do?
What problems will the regionals face now and in the future?
Lose engine on go around, SE in hold for the missed approach. Low IFR within 100miles of you, what would you do?
Anything on your record you want to tell us?
Why should we hire you over the other applicants today?

Cognitive Test

Two cities are 600mi apart. A train moves from one to the other at 40mph and makes three stops 15 minutes apiece. If the train leaves city #1 15 minutes before 8am, what time will it arrive at city #2?
You are shown a series of numbers, one number at a time. Then you are asked to type them in reverse order
Decode a line of symbols using the legend at the top of the screen that matches a symbol with a letter
- O is 6, - is 5, upside down T = 3, squared off U is 1, X is 2
You see a circle in a square with a white line in it. Any time the line moves outside of the circle, hit the button
You will hear 2 series of tones, then you are asked if they were the same or different
Shown a picture of a person with a flag, right side up, upside down, facing you, facing away, flag in right hand flag in left hand, any combination of these.
Multi-tasking- one hand to keep an item centered on the screen using arrow keys, while using the other hand to write a number you previously saw on a screen.
Multi-tasking- One hand compares a group of number and letters to determine if they are the same or different (x7eodm, x7oedm, etc), while other hand used to put a line through a moving ball.

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Comments

Interview Gouge is pretty much right. Only thing I want to add is that they seem to prefer young low time pilots. If you have some experience under your belt you may be wasting your time.
Comfort Inn is decent for $57/night- sign up for shuttle the night before incase it fills up
The interview chair is on wheels and swivels- be sure to sit still
They give you a $5 lunch coupon to use in the cafeteria

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4th December
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Would have given zero stars instead of the 1's if it were an option. Worked there 6 years ago, it was bad then and has progressively gotten worse since according to guys I know that are still there. Don't worry about these ratings because they will likely cease to exist as an airline by the end of 2012 and will never hire again.

21st October
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No more free coffee in the lounge. This place has been nothing but bad news for at least 6 years.

11th August
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Living in Kentucky sucks! Captains need to move on. Most are grumpy. Moral could imporve if they hired pretty flight attendants. Great training program. Free coffee in pilots lounge.

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